James Williams

Argues that human freedom is threatened by systems of intelligent persuasion developed by tech giants who compete for our time and attention. This title is also available as Open Access.

Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy

Stand Out of Our Light

Vivimos pegados a la pantalla, sometidos a los cantos de sirena de la tecnología digital. En la era del exceso informativo, la atención ha pasado a ser un bien escaso y codiciado por las grandes empresas tecnológicas. ¿Cómo afecta este fenómeno a nuestra autonomía y nuestra libertad? ¿Cómo podemos oponer resistencia a la colonización de nuestra mente? Con un pie en la antigua Grecia y el otro en Silicon Valley, Clics contra la humanidad arroja luz sobre uno de los problemas más urgentes de nuestro tiempo. James Williams, que fue estratega de Google antes de estudiar filosofía en Oxford, afirma que los sistemas inteligentes de persuasión que condicionan nuestro pensamiento y nuestra conducta constituyen una grave amenaza para la libertad y la democracia. En vez de ayudarnos a alcanzar nuestras verdaderas metas vitales, las tecnologías digitales desvían y explotan nuestra atención, aprovechándose de nuestras vulnerabilidades psicológicas. Hace demasiado tiempo que minimizamos los trastornos resultantes, descartándolos como simples «distracciones» o molestias menores. Sin embargo, son mecanismos que socavan la voluntad humana, cuyos efectos pueden ser irreversibles si no actuamos a tiempo.

Clics contra la humanidad

A Critical Introduction and Guide

Gilles Deleuze's  <I>Difference and Repetition</I>

James Chase

Jack Reynolds

Ed Mares

Crossing Philosophical Divides

Postanalytic and Metacontinental

This simple, concise book steps beyond a basic understanding of high sensitivity, looking at the challenges and distress that meltdowns can cause for highly sensitive children. And for you. A meltdown can be a terrifying experience for a highly sensitive child and for people witnessing it. This guide gives you the confidence to understand what having a meltdown means, and the knowledge to provide support and comfort. We help you to navigate the reasons why meltdowns happen and how to prevent them where possible, as well as the vital need to be compassionate and caring with yourself and others when they do occur.

Making Sense of Meltdowns

Supporting the Highly Sensitive Child

This book is intended to clear up many of the misconceptions being carried by the organized church for the last two thousand years. Many of these misconceptions have been put into place on purpose. The early Church Fathers felt the need to distance themselves from the Hebrew Bible and changed dates and church traditions to bring about what people understand today. The pages of this book hold the key to understanding the truth about things to come. Have you ever asked yourself or someone else why Jesus says he is coming soon, but it's been two thousand years? You will find the answer to that question in the pages of this book. You will discover what the book of Daniel was told to "shut up" is and why he was told to do this. The truth about the last days is simpler than you think, and God's glorious mystery is now become clear.

Our Last Day and the Return of Christ

Quanto è importante l'attenzione? Per James Williams, prima strategist di Google poi filosofo formatosi a Oxford, la più recente minaccia alla libertà degli uomini viene dai sistemi di persuasione intelligente che sempre di più indirizzano i nostri pensieri e le nostre azioni. Mentre le tecnologie digitali rendevano abbondanti le informazioni, la nostra attenzione è diventata la risorsa che scarseggia e che le tecnologie competono per catturare, senza preoccuparsi di seguire gli obbiettivi che ci prefissiamo e aiutarci a raggiungerli. Abbiamo derubricato i danni che ne derivano come ‘distrazioni’ o piccoli fastidi: ma sono proprio questi, invece, a minare l’integrità della volontà umana a livello individuale e collettivo. Liberare l’attenzione dalle forze della persuasione intelligente può dunque essere il più importante compito morale e politico di questa epoca. Tenendo in equilibrio le nozioni dell’antica Grecia e quelle della Silicon Valley, l’analisi ragionata e appassionata di Williams fa luce su un aspetto cruciale dell’epoca in cui viviamo.

Libertà e resistenza digitale

Scansatevi dalla luce

Keith Crome

The Lyotard Reader and Guide is a one-stop companion to Lyotard's thought. It covers the full range of his works, from his three main books ( Discours, figure; Libidinal Economy; and The Differend) and up to his influential essays in The Inhuman and Postmodern Fables. The readings are organized into sections on philosophy, politics, art, and literature. Several have never before been translated into English. Detailed introductions to each section by two leading Lyotard scholars explain the philosopher's key ideas and provide crucial social, political, aesthetic, and philosophical context. As a sourcebook and guide, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on Lyotard. It is indispensable to students and scholars in philosophy, literature, the arts, and politics.

The Lyotard Reader and Guide

Understanding Poststructuralism presents a lucid guide to some of the most exciting and controversial ideas in contemporary thought. This is the first introduction to poststructuralism through its major theorists - Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Lyotard, Kristeva - and their central texts. Each chapter takes the reader through a key text, providing detailed summaries of the main points of each and a critical and detailed analysis of their central arguments. Ideas are clearly explained in terms of their value to both critical thinking and to contemporary issues. Criticisms of poststructuralism are also assessed. The aim throughout is to illuminate the main methods of poststructuralism - deconstruction, libidinal economics, genealogy and transcendental empiricism - in context. A balanced and up-to-date assessment of poststructuralism, the book presents the ideal introduction to this most revolutionary of philosophies.

Understanding Poststructuralism

Why am I here? Why do I even exist? Why is my life filled with fear, anxiety, and hopelessness? Why can't I ever get the things I desire? Is my life really worth living? If you have ever asked yourself any of these questions--and have made the ultimate search going from place to place, talking to gurus, specialists, or spiritual leaders to get the answers you so desperately need--it is time to start looking inwards. This book Stoicism: The Timeless Wisdom to Living a Good life - Develop Grit, Build Confidence, and Find Inner Peace takes you on a journey into yourself and delivers you into the future you desire. It liberates you from the flawed thinking that your happiness and peace is dependent on the people or things in your life. It aims to unlock the greatness within and put the power to change your life squarely in your hands. In this book you will discover: The myth, the legend, and the truths about Stoicism How you can use the principles of Stoicism to achieve total inner peace The power to enforce change How you can correct your worst behavior using aspects of Stoicism in CBT The keys to managing and outgrowing your physical and emotional pain And much more There are so many books on the holy grail to finding inner peace, but none of them provides a lasting, wholesome approach that sets the tone for sustainable living. The key to living a life that is simultaneously empowering, liberating, and exceptional is all within you. The manifestation of your physical and emotional desires is a process that begins with your mind. The way you think controls the way you act, and it is the things you act on that will bring results. Often, the result we get is different from what we had hoped for. This book Stoicism: The Timeless Wisdom to Living a Good life - Develop Grit, Build Confidence, and Find Inner Peace explores the journey from your thoughts to manifestation. It guides you on how to think in the face of adversity, how to grow your confidence as you enter the eye of the storm, and how to embrace your situation in order to come out on top. This book also dispels any general misconceptions people may have about Stoicism. To appreciate the value and to truly enjoy the benefits of Stoicism, it is important to understand the subject broadly. If you are ready to take your life to the next level, to enter into a conscious and deliberate way of living, you are one step closer with this book in your hands. While this is not a miracle, one finger-snap manual that can change things overnight, it does provide in-depth insights to hidden truths that will inspire a lasting change. So, I dare you to take on this new adventure. Even if your life is perfect, I dare you to be better. Scroll up, click "Buy Now" and let the best days of the rest of your life begin.

The Timeless Wisdom to Living a Good Life - Develop Grit, Build Confidence, and Find Inner Peace

Stoicism

This book provides an overall interpretation of Deleuze's philosophy alongside a critical introduction to one of the most important unifying ideas in his work: the construction of new and important philosophies of time.

Gilles Deleuze's Philosophy of Time

Throughout his career, Deleuze developed a series of original philosophies of time and applied them successfully to many different fields. Now James Williams presents Deleuze's philosophy of time as the central concept that connects his philosophy as a whole. Through this conceptual approach, the book covers all the main periods of Deleuze's philosophy: the early studies of Hume, Nietzsche, Kant, Bergson and Spinoza, the two great philosophical works, Difference and Repetition and Logic of Sense, the Capitalism and Schizophrenia works with Guattari, and the late influential studies of literature, film and painting.The result is an important reading of Deleuze and the first full interpretation of his philosophy of time.

By critically analysing Deleuze's methods, principles and arguments, James Williams helps readers to engage with the revolutionary core of Deleuze's philosophy and take up positions for or against its most innovative and controversial ideas. This second edition includes a new chapter on questions of method around important concepts such as intensity, anarchic distribution, transcendental illusion and distinctness. Here, Williams reflects on the place of judgement and action in Deleuze's work in order to explain its ethical and political dimensions. He also engages with the foremost recent interpretations of Deleuze by Bryant, Sauvagnargues, Smith, Somers-Hall, Hughes and de Beistegui, introducing you to the key debates and oppositions.

Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition

Joan Lord Matthews

James Williams is an SP (special person) - he was diagnosed with autism in childhood. His mother, Joan Matthews, is an NP (normal person). As James grew up, his different perception of the world created problems. Together, he and his mother met the challenges with ingenuity and humour. This is a book of their practical solutions to those problems.

The Self-help Guide for Special Kids and Their Parents

Jack Lack is a mainstreamed eleven-year-old with high-functioning autism. Because he can "talk and did well on spelling tests," he doesn't qualify for the sanctuary of the autism classroom, but instead has been thrown into the BD/JD [behavior-disordered/juvenile delinquent] classroom, which is full of wise-cracking malcontents. Jack is the only one who doesn't constantly misbehave, but because he lacks social skills, he is the one who is invariably blamed for everyone else's misdeeds. After a "typical" school day, Jack returns home to find out that he and his parents will be spending a month with his extended family, to help plan his eccentric Aunt Eva's second wedding. The good news is that he will be taken out of school; the bad news is that he will have to spend that month with his scheming, nefarious cousins, who have always been "out to get him." And in fact, as the month progresses, mysterious things happen, things that (of course) Jack is always blamed for. Determined to prove his innocence, Jack becomes a self-styled detective, hunting for clues to find the real villain. In the process, he ends up finding out things about himself and his extended family that surprise everyone. Cover art by Lauren Williams. Learn more at www.outtogetjack.com

Out to Get Jack

It’s not easy to be a highly sensitive child. Nor is it always easy to raise, care for, guide and teach a highly sensitive child. Because the highly sensitive child experiences the world a little differently, and that can be difficult to understand. This book aims to help you experience the world from the child’s perspective, so that you can better understand them and help them to grow and thrive. In this simple, concise guide I distil the reams of information available on the highly sensitive child so that you can get the knowledge you need quickly and easily. Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: ‘And those who were seen dancing were thought to be crazy by those who could not hear the music.’ The highly sensitive child isn’t crazy. Nor are they slow, or weak, or just ‘not tough enough’. They simply dance to a tune that not everyone can hear. This book helps you hear the music to which the highly sensitive child dances. Once you know the tune exists, and you listen for it carefully, you’ll find it’s beautiful, moving, powerful music.

Seeing an Overwhelming World through Their Eyes

Understanding the Highly Sensitive Child

This is the first critical introduction to Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze s most important work of philosophy and one of the most significant texts of contemporary philosophy. In offering a critical analysis of Deleuze s methods, principles and arguments, the book enables readers to engage with the revolutionary core of Deleuze s philosophy and take up favourable or critical positions with respect to its most innovative and controversial ideas. The book will also help to extend Deleuze s work to philosophers working in the analytic tradition.

This unique volume is the first to go beyond the theory of team dynamics and project management to present real world applications. The culmination of years of experience and research, the book describes practical techniques for building successful high performance project teams using actual examples from high tech companies. A concise guide for both new and experienced managers, this valuable resource enables you to: select the right projects for your organization; reduce the time needed for team development and productive operation; learn motivational and retention strategies for technical project personnel; avoid project management pitfalls; and inject quality into current and future projects. The book examines the typical life cycle of team development and the general mechanics of team and project formation in today's project management setting. It scrutinizes both successes and failures in nurturing and developing a team, offering techniques and suggestions on building better teams in thefuture.

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